Uncle Lou, the Godfather of TFTC, joins the show to announce the new partnership between TFTC and Mash (where he is the head of partnerships), the evolution of content monetization over the last 12 years, why publishing business models are completely broken at the moment, and why he believes the lightning network can provide publishers with a new model.

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Timestamps

0:00 - Intro
5:28 - Riffing
15:37 - Mash and the new TFTC site
24:26 - Incumbent monetization models
29:06 - Enabling interaction features
31:58 - Controlling your own flow of funds
39:27 - Ending the subscription model
47:22 - Convincing other publishers
50:29 - Verifying humanity
54:51 - Lightning compared to advertising a decade ago
1:00:39 - Barstool
1:03:24 - Death of the old model
1:06:27 - Riffing after an interruption
1:11:26 - Chicken and egg of Bitcoin adoption
1:17:39 - Demo-ing donations
1:19:33 - We’re gonna win
1:25:42 - Twitter and Nostr
1:29:30 - Riffing
1:32:56 - New site launch
1:36:08 - Saving the world with Bitcoin
1:40:30 - Politicians are nuts
1:48:21 - War
1:58:35 - Rising from ashes of the American empire
2:01:27 - AI
2:03:26 - Ending riff

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